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However, James Toback??s ’66 Harvard Man is, as far as I’m concerned, more than just the cinematic event of the year. Forget last fall’s football season, forget the pending MAC renovation and forget the return of the women’s hockey Olympians to Bright Ice next winter. Harvard Man is the biggest thing to hit Crimson sports this century...
...Toback??James—you’re sitting on a gold mine here. Have your people call my people—and by my people, I mean me. I’m in the directory...
Filmed in Toronto and on location in Harvard Square, Harvard Man is loosely based on Toback??s own Harvard experiences in the 1960s. A resident of Leverett House and a prose editor for the Advocate, the former English concentrator says the film’s texture represents “what Harvard means to me” as he looks back on a highly “experimental” and “transitional” time in his life...
...Francisco Examiner praised the film’s depiction of the lead character’s acid trip as “the most brutal and convincing acid trip ever filmed,” and the San Franciso Chronicle said Toback??s recent movies “are automatically interesting because he made them...
Then, five weeks ago, Cowboy Pictures—a “small but smart” company, according to Toback??agreed to release the film without video rights. Cowboy Pictures took over the deals Toback had negotiated with Brattle and Cinema Village and now plans to expand the film’s release to more than 75 cities...